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Night on Earth - They should erect a statue of Matti Pellonpää in Helsinki.
I found it intriguing for a while but in the end it was a big bowl of meh.Best Offer (2013) - ? /10
The only thing you might be able to criticize it with is that it suffers from old-director-trying-to-modernize-his-own-sensibilities syndrome, but it's undeniably gutsy. Torn to the point where I'd be interested what some uber-film-lovers think of it.
Yep.Persona - Beautifully shot and incredibly dramatic but bits of it at the start and end flew completely over my head. Really good looking film though.
I found it intriguing for a while but in the end it was a big bowl of meh...
It made me wanna go to Rome badly.The Great Beauty - title delivers what it promises, a gorgeous film. Made me want to go back to Rome so badly. A big step up from This Must Be The Place.
Following the success of his Oscar-winning film The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino's next project Youth has snapped up a welter of Hollywood acting talent: Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda and Paul Dano are to join the previously announced Michael Caine.
The film (previously known as In the Future) looks set to return to some of Sorrentino's key themes: age, art and the poignancy of each. It focuses on a pair of 80-year-old friends on holiday in the Alps, looking back at their lives and the time they have left. One is a film director struggling to complete his last feature, while the other is a retired composer and conductor who is being tempted into picking up the baton again – the film follows their efforts, as well as their relationships with their children and fellow hotel guests.
It will be the second time Sorrentino has worked with English-language actors, following This Must Be the Place with Sean Penn playing an ageing goth rocker. Weisz meanwhile is already working on another English-language project from an acclaimed European arthouse director, Yorgos Lanthimos's The Lobster, a strange sci-fi romance that will co-star Colin Farrell, Lea Seydoux, Olivia Colman and others. Weisz is also on board for Miss You Already, the next film from Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, which has been written by British actor Morwenna Banks.
Sorrentino meanwhile is also working on a Sky TV co-production provisionally entitled The Young Pope, about the struggles of an American pope called Lenny Belado. "The series is about dreams, fears, conflicts, battles, the search for meaning and the need for love of a pope, seen through Sorrentino's unique vision capable of creating worlds that are at the same time incredible and more real than reality itself," said the show's producers in a statement.
"The pope invented by Sorrentino is someone you have to meet at least once in your life," added producer Lorenzo Mieli in an Italian newspaper interview, comparing the character to The Sopranos' Tony Soprano, Breaking Bad's Walter White and House of Cards' Frank Underwood
I'm glad this didn't affect our friendship.I don't disagree.
Truly awful, pretentious bollox. Made me want to throw up.The Great Beauty - title delivers what it promises, a gorgeous film. Made me want to go back to Rome so badly. A big step up from This Must Be The Place.
Truly awful, pretentious bollox. Made me want to throw up.
Nope see above ^^^.Everything is bollox to you, pete.
Under The Skin?Nope see above ^^^.
Really looking forward to seeing this one. Good to hear you enjoyed it.Under the Skin - Absolutely brilliant. It's really hard to describe, so I won't. Johansson was fantastic.
I can imagine ...Under the Skin - Absolutely brilliant. It's really hard to describe, so I won't. Johansson was fantastic.
Tell her it's actually melancholic crooner Jay-Jay Johansson in the starring role.I'm going to try to go tonight. But it's a subtle process: my fiancée hates Scarlett Johansson, so I'm going to have to basically trick her to the pictures and into the theater without her knowing. I might have to knock her out and drag her in, which in fairness is a great way to start the weekend.
All of her.I can imagine ...![]()
Ghost Dog - Kinda interesting idea, parodying gangsters and 'lone man against many' action/thriller films but I can't help feel it would have been better had it taken itself more seriously. Just felt too empty and I can't see why it is rated so highly by some. 6/10
I hated it too, dunno why it's so highly rated.Journey To Italy
Considering Rossellini's seen as the man who originated Neo-realism, this film felt very stilted and over-directed. Every time it seemed it was going somewhere interesting and real, he cuts to another scene. All very frustrating to watch, and just felt emotionally empty at the end. Disappointed. Never been much of a fan of Ingrid Bergman either. 3/10
Best Offer (2013) - ? /10
The only thing you might be able to criticize it with is that it suffers from old-director-trying-to-modernize-his-own-sensibilities syndrome, but it's undeniably gutsy. Torn to the point where I'd be interested what some uber-film-lovers think of it.
No matter how many times people recommend this to me I will never watch it because I can't see that title without thinking
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"...how about...Ghost Mutt?"
Under the Skin - Absolutely brilliant. It's really hard to describe, so I won't. Johansson was fantastic.